What Really Happens When You Mix Medications?

If you take two different medications for two different reasons, here's a sobering thought: your doctor may not fully understand what happens when they're combined, because drug interactions are incredibly hard to study. In this fascinating and accessible talk, Russ Altman shows how doctors are studying unexpected drug interactions using a surprising resource: search engine queries.

An Expert Opinion about Pioglitazone Adverse Events

Could you tell us why pioglitazone has been banned from several markets worldwide?Dr Kovil: It doesn’t make any sense at all, because neither did the USFDA find any evidence to ban pioglitazone , nor did the EMEA (European Medicines Agency). I for one do not understand where the health authorities in India found enough evidence to ban the drug and its combinations. There is no evidence across the globe sufficient enough to ban it.